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ArtsJournal: music
2016-08-10 14:00:44
Opera Director Kay Walker Castaldo Dead At 67
“[She] directed productions for Opera Company of Philadelphia, Cincinnati Opera, Teatro Colón, and New York City Opera. Since 2012, she had been associate professor at the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at the University of Michigan.” Says former Opera Company of Philadelphia chief Robert Driver, “She is probably the only director who never raised her voice.”
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2016-08-09 14:21:14
Brain tumour kills early Netrebko director, aged 67
A regular director with Opera Company of Philadelphia, Cincinnati Opera, Teatro Colón, and New York City Opera, Kay Walker Castaldo gently steered the young Anna up a difficult stage staircase in I Capuleti e i Montecchi. A Clevelander, Kay was associate professor at the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at the University of Michigan. Obituary here.
2016-02-06 12:51:15
[…] near Paris. 1 Stephen Albert In 1941 Stephen Albert was born in New York City. He began his musical training on the piano, French horn, and trumpet as a youngster. He first studied composition at the age of 15 with Elie Siegmeister, and enrolled two years later at the Eastman School of Music , where he studied with Bernard Rogers . Following composition lessons in Stockholm with Karl-Birger Blomdahl , Albert studied with Joseph Castaldo at the Philadelphia Musical Academy (BM 1962); in 1963 he worked with George Rochberg at the University of Pennsylvania . In 1965 he won a Rome Fellowship to study in Rome at the American Academy . From 1985 to 1988 he worked as the Seattle Symphony ‘s composer-in-residence . His notable students included Daniel Asia . Albert was killed in an automobile accident on Cape Cod on December 27, 1992. He won the 1985 […]
2015-04-17 21:52:21
[…] sales of classical music fell by nearly 20 percent in 2013. The same downward trend continued in 2014. And the market share of classical music hovers around three percent, less than one tenth of the pop music share. In order to decipher the elements involved with the sharp drop, Li Ying talks to industry insiders, music critics and classical musicians for their perspectives on the toughening market environment. These people include Gennaro Castaldo, Director of Communications for the BPI, the British recording industry’s trade association, Martin Cullingford , Editor and Publisher of Gramophone , Mark Ernesti , Head of Professional Development of the Royal Academy of Music , and Shirley Thompson, the first female composer who has written a symphony in Europe in the past 40 years. These interviews have been transformed into a radio documentary titled The Classical Dilemma. Here is the trailer of […]
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